Software Developer

Job Title: Software Developer V
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina(hybrid)
*This position will be hybrid. **

JobDescription:
As part of our client needs, Invest, Lending and Digital Technologies (BILD) team, you will be responsible for building APIs and software components for a major strategic expansion of our Credit Card and Lending line-of-business. This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of an agile development team that will implement our vision of a modern API and omni-channel Digital Servicing platform, to accelerate product development and evolution of our customer servicing capabilities.
As part of this, you will implement reusable application frameworks, components and constructs that will accelerate delivery of our top project initiatives. Additionally, as an engineer in this dynamic team, you will seek to continuously enhance and streamline developer experiences with tools and automation controls that will accelerate speed-to-market and improve the quality of software. You will use your technical expertise, industry knowledge and passion for continuous learning to help shape the roadmap for platform modernization, reduce operational overhead and enable Ally to offer best-in-class customer experiences.
This role will provide you with ample opportunity to apply problem solving, software architecture and design concepts, and the latest technology to implement systems and solutions that drive real business results. You will collaborate with developers and architects from other enterprise teams and participate and lead technical communities of practice.
Excellent coding, communication, problem-solving and thought leadership will help propel your career. You should lead by example and with a personal sense of commitment to meet and exceed our goals.
On this team, we make relentless progress to deliver on our commitments. We support each other, strive to foster a culture where each team member is valued, and can bring their best to work. Our #1 goal is to be successful as a team and our people are above all else.

Key Responsibilities:
Serving as a core member of an agile team that leads user story elaboration, design, development, testing and implementation of software application and infrastructure-as-code.
Writing code and unit tests, automation, and conducting code reviews and testing
Collaborating with other team architects, engineers and vendors as necessary
Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement
Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
Working with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues
Working along with stakeholders to understand and analyse the requirements
Leading a culture of innovation and experimentation, engaging in fun and outcome-oriented culture, and taking calculated risks that push the envelope.
Actively studying new and emerging technologies, rapidly prototype and carrying out POCs
Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
Maintaining documentation, coding standards, and style guides
Optimizing application performance, quality, and delivery to defined organizational standards and best practices
Managing your own time, and working well both independently and as part of a team
Influencing team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo
Serving as a mentor for junior and new engineers and peers in the software development practice to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers

Skills:
4 years of software development experience in a professional environment
Knowledgeable in modern API technologies, architecture and design practices and protocols with hands-on experience using one or more API technologies (Open API, REST, RPC, GraphQL, Micro-Services, Serverless)
Have experience in designing and building Cloud native applications. Experience in cloud technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform is a plus
Working knowledge of public cloud (e.g. AWS) is a plus
Proficient in at least one of the languages used at Ally (e.g. NodeJS, React, React Native, Python, Java)
Able to apply core programming concepts to learn and develop in a new language to meet project requirements
Experience in using NoSQL databases and distributed messaging systems such as Redis, Kafka, Couchbase, Cassandra in the context of low latency and high transaction volume systems
A self-starting mentality and passion for experimentation, with interests in game changing technology and identifying unconventional opportunities for success
Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools such as Gitlab Pipelines/Jenkins/GitHub
Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
Proficient oral and written communication skills.
BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field